Remove subfolders from URL

Question

I am having a tough time removing the subfolders from the URL in my WordPress site.

Currently, the URL format is: www.mysite.com/subfolder/index.php/category/postname

I would like to remove both the subfolder AND index.php from the URL.

The site must stay in a subfolder of root on my server.

My current htaccess file is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subfolder/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subfolder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I've tried to add the following, although it did not work.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^subfolder/(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L] 

Answer 1

You need to make the WP site url and home url differ in Settings / General. The home url should be example.com, while the site url (where WP lives) should be example.com/wp (or wherever you put it).

You can hardcode these in your config file:

define('WP_HOME',    'http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com/wp');

WP should know how to take things from there, and place the .htaccess where it should be.

In case it doesn't, my own site's folder looks like this:

• .htaccess
• index.php
• wp

The index.php file contains:

<?php
// WordPress view bootstrapper
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', true );
require( './wp/wp-blog-header.php' );

And the .htaccess contains:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Regarding the /index.php bit in URLs generated by WP, it means WP is (incorrectly?) finding that your site cannot manage permalinks. (Can I wager that this is because you're using Nginx?)

Assuming you know better than WP, add a must-use plugin in your wp-content/mu-plugins folder, e.g. a force-permalinks.php file:

<?php
add_filter( 'got_rewrite', '__return_true' );

Answer 2

Not sure what exactly you want. Can you please elaborate your question a bit more?

If you want URLs like www.mysite.com/subfolder/postname (where the subfolder is where your WordPress install is), then just go to Settings > Permalinks and change it to Post Name.

EDIT

If your WordPress install is in subfolder and you want URLs like www.mysite.com/category/postname, then set both the WordPress Address and Site Address to www.mysite.com and in Permalinks, choose Custom Structure and use this tag /%category%/%postname%.